Press Release
7th of July, 2008
New Delhi / NOIDA
IIM Lucknow announced the commencement of the 6th General Management Programme for Defence Officers
The programme is the second at IIM Lucknow’s Noida campus and will be from July 6th 2009 to December 18th 2009
Indian Institute of Management, Lucknow’s Noida campus announced the commencement of its six months General Management Programme for Defence officers. This 24 weeks General Management Programme is the sixth in a series of such programme being organized for Defence officers at IIM Lucknow and the second at the Noida campus of IIM Lucknow. The programme will take place from July 06, 2009 to December 18, 2009.
The programme is open to both short service commission officers and others. The programme was inaugurated at the NOIDA campus by Cmde Rajeev Karsolia, Principal Director (Employment), Ministry of Defence, Govt. of India. Dr. Devi Singh, Director, IIM Lucknow, Prof. NK Gupta & Prof. Rajeev Kumar, Program Directors were also present at the inaugural session.
The first five programmes conducted by IIML were huge successes with many of the 49 officers of the first programme, 60 of the second, 59 of the third, 59 of the fourth and 65 of the fifth GMP getting good job offers.
In the 6th programme, after applying the selection criteria, 50 officers (seven from Air Force , forty from Army and three from Navy) including 5 lady officers have been selected for the programme. (Air Force:7 – Male:5, Female:2; Army:40 – Male:37, Female:3; Navy:3 – Male:3)
“There has been increasing popularity of GMP courses at IIM Lucknow and it is good to witness the increased demand for the defence personnel in the corporate sector. It is a pleasure to prepare these disciplined and responsible officers to play important roles in today’s competitive business scenario which further adds to the national interest”, says Dr. Devi Singh, Director, IM Lucknow.
The Indian Armed Forces carefully selects Officers and continuously trains them in the art, science and craft of WINNING. Every year, hundreds of these Officers retire, with rich experience in learning, critical reasoning, objective decision making, creative thinking, leading and motivating people, running organisations and managing projects. The aim of the programme is to capitalize on these skills of the officers and optimize them to suit the corporate world’s requirements.
As in the past, the sixth programme is also expected to generate an enthusiastic response from the corporate world and given the intense nature of the programme it is sure to equip the participants with the necessary skill set so very essential to conquer the corporate world.
The objective of the GMP is to provide the participants with a basic understanding of the managerial systems and processes. The programme has been designed to provide the defence officers with basic functional inputs in subjects such as accounting and finance, decision sciences, organizational behavior, human resources management, communication skills, marketing, strategy, information technology and business environment.
The idea is to familiarize the officers with the requisite analytical tools and techniques; and develop a holistic perspective and global mindset to understand issues of an enterprise.
For Further Information please contact:
Sunil Kumar Singh / Vinita Dhawan
Finesse PR
43056200 (30 Lines)
[email protected] / [email protected]
